Art in the Park coming to Centennial Park

Friday

Aug 3, 2018 at 1:30 PM

Art is here — or it will be Saturday.

The annual Art in the Park event will take place 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, at Centennial Park in Holland.

"It’s just a nice atmosphere. It’s just a nice family-friendly stroll through the park," said Beth Canaan, coordinator of Art in the Park. "You get to look at everything, and you get to support the arts in the community. It’s just all-around good."

Hundreds are expected to descend on the park looking for fine arts, crafts and culinary art products.

"Art in the park focuses mostly on crafters and fine artists, and we also have expanded to some culinary," Canaan said. "... We have ceramics, jewelry; we have clothing people have made, we have traditional paints … . It’s just everything I can think of. Art has become such a broad term, so it’s hard to define."

There will be 200 vendors at the juried event, from about eight different states.

"We have some new food vendors," Canaan added.

Holland Friends of Art organizes the event each year as a fundraiser for its programs and scholarships.

"It’s a fundraiser for Holland Friends of Art to procure money for scholarships and lectures and artwork in town here in Holland," Canaan said. "Also it’s an opportunity to show people what talents are out there."

Ultimately, you can't go wrong with a stroll through a park filled with art for sale, Canaan said.